Yes, the UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive. It was on IA for a while but has been forced underground for legal reasons. You can still find copies pretty easily.
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i2btuu/utzoo_a...
Surely there must be some law or legal precedent that in the act of posting to a public forum, you inherently "license" that content to be freely reproduced, at a minimum for non-commercial purposes as part of distribution in the context of the forum? (But nobody can correct your posts and sell them as a book though.)
I'm wondering if IA gave up because they thought they would lose, or it would be too expensive to go to court in the first place.
One does not simply walk into the Poetry newsgroups. Their strophes are guarded by more than just X-No-Archive message headers. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the grey-locked troll hunters are ever watchful ...
Is there a monopoly over Usenet archives, or is it someone arguing about their own posts only?
I would believe it is wrong for someone to have copyright over what's basically distributed public forums.
Also, that's how the law works :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i2btuu/utzoo_a...
https://archive.org/download/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive/
but I've not [yet] looked at it...
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